You're IM info can be in your profile. And if I'm not mistaken you can post the IM info in a non-public place but in the public side of the forum you cannot because unapproveds and guests can see it.

Right. For one, it attracts spambots. For two, as Elliquiy grows... we already attract the attention of a thousand people a day. Once it gets to be two, three, ten thousand, public IM info is just inviting trouble. I hate having to track down harassment issues like that as it is.